William Morris
William Morris
William Morriswas an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 March 1834
may politics socialism
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
weed rain men
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
night wind earth
Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
pain world bitter
A world made to be lost, -A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.
summer air bells
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
dream lonely fellowship
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
men two alive
Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
heart mean men
what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brainslack brain workers, nor heartsick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realisation at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.
rewards life-is enough
The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
friendship heaven earth
Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
garden fruit chiefs
As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
real commitment thinking
I think the thing that impressed me is (AT&T CEO Michael) Armstrong's strategic vision and the fact that he's got John Malone (TCI's chairman) to go along. There's a real commitment to build a new AT&T.
beautiful passion civilization
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
fighting men names
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.